16 European leaders call for raising climate targets by 2020
Just ahead of the world’s foremost summit on climate change, COP24, 16 European leaders have called upon all countries of the world to commit to review the levels of ambition […]
Work area: Climate action
Briefing: EU Long Term Strategy and the Paris Agreement
This briefing concerns the draft EU Long-Term Strategy. It explains that while setting a net zero by 2050 target would be a clear improvement as compared to the current roadmap, […]
10 EU countries call for raising the bar of the EU’s long term climate plan
In a letter to the European Commission sent last week, environment ministers representing 10 EU Member States have called upon the EU’s executive to clearly support a target of reducing […]
More than 160 000 Europeans are supporting the People’s Climate Case
Today, the Luxembourg NGOs -ASTM, Greenpeace, Mouvement Ecologique and natur&ëmwelt- together with Wemove.eu and Climate Action Network Europe, showed their support to the families and young people who are suing […]
The EU must urgently ramp up its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Preliminary estimates published today in the European Environment Agency (EEA)’s annual ‘trends and projections’ assessments show a 0.6% emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. IPCC scientists have made a call […]
European Parliament calls for stepping up EU climate action
In today’s vote on the European Parliament’s position on December’s COP24 climate summit, MEPs called for increasing the EU’s 2030 climate target to a 55 percent emission cuts compared to […]
EU leaders recognise the need to strengthen climate targets by 2020
In response to the landmark IPCC report on global warming of 1.5°C published last week, 28 EU Heads of State and Government have called upon all countries of the world […]
EU divided on the need to increase its 2030 climate target
15 EU environment ministers called today for increasing the EU’s climate target to limit warming to 1.5°C. The other ministers did not support such a commitment, turning their backs on […]
Letter from the plaintiff’s of the People’s Climate Case: 1.5 is the only number that counts
The plaintiffs of the People’s Climate Case published an open letter to the EU Environment Ministers gathering today to discuss the EU climate policies; Their message is simple: The impacts […]
Leaked EU strategy at odds with new IPCC report on 1.5°C
In a draft long-term EU climate strategy leaked by the media today, the European Commission proposes three options for the EU’s long-term target: 80% emission reductions by 2050, reaching net […]